Daniel Coman

Central Midfielder - Retired
1 Jun 2034
Thursday
Process

Marked for Daniel Coman

335 Edition

The FCSB Chronicle

27 Dec 2032
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Daniel Coman asks to leave FCSB

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Only the photograph left for Victor Adeboyejo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Victor Adeboyejo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FCSB the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at FCSB

Arthur Chaves was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market

Pavel Meleshin wants more than FCSB are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

The dugout

Alexandru Roşca gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Arthur Chaves gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Arthur Chaves is on it.

The dugout

Khaly is still paying for one afternoon at FCSB

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Squad

Alexandru Roşca wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and FCSB will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

Market

Ritchy Valmé runs his contract down

1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs FCSB money.

In brief

Back issues
334 Edition

The FCSB Chronicle

20 Dec 2032
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

FCSB are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 43 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Fletcher Boyd is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FCSB is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words exchanged at FCSB

Amine Harit and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A row about effort at FCSB

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ezra Mayers was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Mohamed Bamba has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at FCSB will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

Ionuţ Ailenei gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Ceadach O'Neill is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Market

Still no ink between FCSB and Ceadach O'Neill

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at FCSB, another week without a signature from Ceadach O'Neill.

Market

Arthur Chaves runs his contract down

2 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs FCSB money.

In brief

319 Edition

The FCSB Chronicle

6 Sep 2032
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Patryk Dziczek

98 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FCSB lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Victor Adeboyejo has said yes to CFR Cluj

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. FCSB have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

FCSB turn down NK Osijek for Nikola Moro

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Boardroom

FCSB close the window on a squad of their own making

34 in and 30 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Market

Luca Băsceanu wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at FCSB hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Ofri Arad stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ofri Arad and FCSB agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Daniel Coman is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FCSB is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words exchanged at FCSB

Amine Harit and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A move Eduard Chioveanu would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Eduard Chioveanu is living that version at FCSB, and it tends to show in the first month.

In brief